Gage-knife



(No ModeL}.

F. W. LOWE.

GAGE KNIFE. No. 409,849. Patented Aug. 27, 1889 N FEYERS. 'PhulwLRhognflxer, Washington, D: t:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK WV. LOVE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAG E-KNIFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,849, dated. August 2'7, 1889. Application filed November 16, 1888- Sen'al No. 291,084. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK IV. LOWE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Combined Knife and Apple-Oorer, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a combined knife and apple-corer, so that the knife can be used as an ordinary knife to peel vegetables, or for other uses, while the corer can be. used to remove cores from apples when required.

The invention consists of a knife the handle of which is adapted to remove cores from apples, the knife and handle being formed from a single piece of metal, as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a blank stamped out from a piece of metal ready to be bent to form a combined knife and applecorer embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of a combined knife and apple-corer complete. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line x of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section taken on line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows a modification.

To make a combined knife and apple-corer according to my invention, I first cut from a sheet of metal (preferably steel) by suitable dies a blank of the form shown in Fig. 1, in which A represents the blade portion, and B the handle portion, which is formed at each end with ears CL a b b, the portion between the cars a I) being somewhat wider than the blade A. Thehandle portion is then bent round, the ears a b forming complete circles, while the portion between them forms a semicircle, as will be seen in Figs. 2, 3, and at. \Vhen thus bent, it forms the handle for the knife and the end forms the applecorer. Of course the knife has to be ground to form a cutting-edge, and the edge 0 is also sharpened. When used as a corer, the edge 0 is placed over the core and then forced through the apple. It is then withdrawn, and, the core will be drawn out with it. To remove the core from the eorer it is pushed up by the finger until free from the inner edge of the ears I), when it will fall out of the semicircular recess between the ears a b.

If desired, instead of having ears on both sides of the blank, as shown, they may be on one side only, and of sufficient length to form the circle; or, instead of forming the handle portion with the cars a b with a space between for the core to drop out, the metal might extend the entire length, as shown in Fig. 6, in which case the core of the apple would have to be pushed out at the inner end of the corer, next to the knife-blade.

hat I claim as my invention is- I. A combined knife and apple-corer c011- sistin g of a flat blade and handle stamped out of a single piece of "metal, the handle portion being bent to form a corer, substantially as shown and described.

2. A combined knife and apple-corer consisting of a flat blade A and handle portion B, stamped out of a single piece of metal, the handle portion being provided with cars a a Z; b, said portion and ears being bent to form a handle and apple-corer, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 7th day of November, A. D. 1888.

FRANK LO\VE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. STEERE,

IDWIN PLANTA. 

